[Python-Dev] Python sidebar for Mozilla/Netscape

Guido van Rossum guido@python.org
Fri, 05 Apr 2002 11:25:44 -0500


> > I have a version that allows searching the docs by utilizing
> > google.com, but unfortunately google license prohibits querying
> > google from a program :(
> 
> Is that so ? 

I think it is.  Read http://www.google.com/terms_of_service.html

> If yes, then we'll have to remove scripts/google.py from 
> the Python distro.

I don't think so -- the google.py code doesn't read the Google output,
it tells your browser to read it.  Big difference.  (urlopen(), on the
other hand, would be a no-no.)

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)